With nine human levels and nine entirely different dragon levels, Reign of Fire seems like a relatively large game, too. Reign of Fire plays like a lot of console-based military games, with objective-based missions and a recognizable tricks of the trade, such as a giving players variety of vehicles, scenarios, and numerous dragon types with which to fight. The game follows a thin outline of the movie at best, focusing instead on the straight up defense of their lands and offense movement against dragon attacks and upon their lair, respectively. The Englishman Quinn and his followers have captured a castle in which they find a certain level of comfort and protection, and the American Van Zan and his military brigade of dragon killers have joined up with Quinn's people, but with a slightly different purpose. Following the theme from the movie, players start as part of a remaining human community, struggling to stay alive as a powerful breed of dragon grows rampant across the earth, feeding on humans in their quick ascension up the food chain. It's not a total loss of a game, but Reign of Fire is neither great nor miserable. The premise has huge potential, in fact the concept is loaded, but the game's execution never really hits top gear, and it never really delivers the visceral impulse to freely play 'til the late night hours. Where I saw potential before, I now see missed opportunities, where I saw possibilities in the vehicular combat, I now see an unpolished combat system. Nearly every aspect of the final version of Reign of Fire is delivered without a feeling of finishhed, polished exciting gameplay. ![]() But the big change in my feeling toward this game comes down to execution. The feeling of playing as a dragon was really thrilling then (which was the focus of my preview), and it still is now. Gameplay Having finished playing Reign of Fire, I've re-checked my preview of the same game (from July 25), in which I had written rather glowingly about it. Tedious and laborious, yes, but fun? That's arguable, at best. But Reign of Fire is a difficult game to recommend, since the development team never really crystallized the finer aspects of the gameplay, and as a result, players find themselves trapped in a series of military missions neither inspiring nr fun. And then, later you get to fight as the dragons. Reign of Fire is filled with every evolutionary phase of dragons you can imagine, and you get to fight them all. ![]() Which isn't the case with the game by the same name, BAM's second big movie-based game (the first being Driven).
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